The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-07
w omen as Inventors.

credit for her inventive faculties, writes
n Washington correspondent of The
New York World. Few persons realize
what an important role she is PLAYING in
the designing of numerous articles, USE
fu, Us well us ornamental. The records
of the patent Office show that fully
nineteen hundred patents are claimed
by women. Mo. over, not small
number of the patents granted to men
are really for ingenious devices and
ideas that have originated in feminine
brain. The women of New York have
been granted more patents than their
sisters in any other state. Tho women
of Massachusetts,, Ohio, Indian, and
Wisconsin rank next in order In
machinery women have done much.
Almost daily improvements in sewing
machines come from her brains. In
the model-room of the patent Office,
nearly side by side with Elias Howe's
machine, is one made by Miss Rosen-
| thai. 1t is handy little contgivance,
which can be put in lady's pocket and
screwed on to an ordinary table. II is
so dainty it looks fit for the work-room
I of fairy. 1t will be boon to persons
travelling where ii is impossible to take
a large machine. Machinists pronounce
it practically perfect in construction,
but it has not yet been put upon the
| market.
The first submarine telescope was
the production of Mrs. Sarah B. Math-
ers, of New York. Mrs. Montgomery
| shows section of war-vessel provid-
ed With series of iron plates 80 con-
| structed as to resist shot and shell.
| There is also in the model-room an en-
| CINE of offense as well as defense in
the shape of breech-load;ng gun,
credited to Miss Ruth Goshan. Among
the more peaceful inventions by wo-
men are car-couplng pio and an i'm
proved railway for street-cars. A life
raft is q contrivance of Mrs, Beaseley.
An appliance for raising srnken ves-
sells has been patented by Mrs. Emily
fancy, of Pennsylvania. she has also
contrived syphon propeller pump.
Mrs. Flackelton, of Milwaukee, claims
to have made two hundred women self
supporting by means OF nseful little
portable kiln for fire decorated china.
This can be attached to any gas-pipe,
and is an improvement in the usual
method of heating, aflording much
more equable temperature. Miss Mary
Broughton, OF New York. discovered a
new mode of forming air chambers in
dental plates for artificial tceth. Miss
Amelia Bird. desires to make a noise in
the world, and her genius scared to
steam whistles. Mrs. Caroline Brooks.
of Arkansas, has patented some lubri-
eating molds in plaster. Mrs. Brooks
will be remembered as the butter artist
at the centennial. her lovely creation
of lolanthe attracting much attention.
She now has a studio in New York.
Mrs. Sarah Ames, of Massachusetts,,
patented the bust of Abraham Lincoln.
Of what the patent-right consists does
not clearly appear, as artists generally
consider such things creations rather
than inventions Mrs Cornelia Beau
mont, of Ohio, has patent life-boat to
her credit Mrs Martha y Coston
has been very successful with her pyro.
technic night signals. She is an ex-
ample of what pluck and perseverance
can do. At the death of her husband
his papers were in chaotic condition
and his designs not fully perfected.
Unaided, she brought them to point
where they were practically valuable,
and she remained abroad ten years in
Producing them in the various foreign
ports. She has been rewarded for her
perseverance by fortune. Among the
queer inventions is an instrument for
restoring facial symmetry, BY Miss
Fanny Batchelder, of Massachusetts.
The numerous patents granted to
women include fire-escapes, dust-brush-
es baby-tenders, devices for killing
mosquitoes aud other insects, window
washers, glove-fastenerS, food-preserv-
ers, COW mixers. dish-washers, wash |
ing-machines, cooking-stoves, corpse
nresarvers hustles face lotions and |